The Grenada sentinel., 1887-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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BY the caving in Of church steps at Chi
people were fatally and four seriously in
| jured.
The funeral Of the late Captain James
B. Eads took place from Christ Church,
| st. Louis, on the 18th.
BERTHA KLINE, aged thirteen years, who
had finger crushed in cotton mill ten
days previously, died at Lancaster, Pa.,on
| the 18th, of lockjaw, after suffering ter
| ribly.
PosT-oFFIcE INSPECTOR HARTsHoRN was
arrested in New York, on the 18th,
| charged with connection with swindling
| watch concern.
FRANK A. ScoTT, the defaulting cashier
of the publishing firm of Webster & Co.,
| of New York, has confessed to Charles
L. Webster at the county Jail that he ap-
propriated to his own use $4,000 of the
| firms money. The prisoner further said
| that he would not resist any action taken
| by the firm. He also expressed determi-
nation to make restitution.
WIN. j. HUTCHINSON, an eX-New York
| broker, is in prison there for conversion
of stocks to his own use which had been
| instrusted to him.
PIERRE SoLIDoR MILoN, who served
with distinction under Napoleon Bona
parte in the early part of the present
century, died at New York, on the 18th, in
his one hundredth year.
! AN explosion of gas occurred in the
| Conyngham mine of the Delaware d Hud-
son Coal Company at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
| on the 18th. Four men were burned, two
Of them, it is believed, fatally. Their
| names are Jacob and stephen Snyder,
| William Bloom and Will am Thieman.
THE case Of Oscar Cook, who got him
self into hot water by helping Wittrock to
dispose of the Doodle after the Frisco
train robbery, was called in the Criminal
Court at Independence, Mo-, on the 18th.
Cook pleaded guilty to one count in the
| indictment, and was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary.
WALTER E. LAwToN, New York mer
chant, has run away, after defrauding va
| rious people to the amount altogether OF
| about 81, 100000. His effects have been at
| tached
GENEVA SToNER, aged seventeen years.
committed suicide at Lancaster, Pa, on
! the 18th, by taking dose of rat poison.
| She gave as reason for the act that her
mother would not allow her to go out at
night.
The funeral of Lieutenant Powell, of the
signal corps, took place from his late resi-
dence in Washington on the 10th. The in
| terment was made in Glenwood cemetery.
| A number of signal-servlce men attended
| the funeral.
| A WASHINGTON firm of architects have
been awarded the prize competition of
artists and architects all over the world
| for monument to the City of Mexico, to
commemorate the war in which Mexico
became an independent nation. 1t is to be
of Mexican marbles and bronze to cost
100000.
MRS HoYT, the Presidents sister, is a
guest at the White House in Washington.
| THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
in reply to an official ing quiry from the
Commissioner of Agriculture, states that
the quantity of artificial butter manufact-
ured and removed for consumption or sale
during the months of Novem ber, Decem-
ber and January was as follows: Novem-
Der, 4,742, $50 pounds; December, 2,7s6, 27S
pounds; January, 2,5o1, ia pounds. Total,
10,O29,061 pounds.
"BUFFALo BILL" has been made a
Colonel of Nebraska militia.
THE Irish police have at last succeeded
in rresting Father Keleher.
IT is stated at Washington that ex-
Representative Benton j. Hail. Of Iowa
has been decided upon as the successor
to Mr.. Montgomery as Commissioner Of
Patents.
MRS. ADELE GRATIoT- WAsHBURNE, wife
Of the Hon. E. B. Washburne, ex-Minister
l - tod ;,,r tl,n
M. DE LEssEPs says he don't care what
the Partisan press say about his recent ut
terances at Berlin; that he still sticks to
them.
AN appalling hotel horror occurred on
the 18th at Buffalo, N. Y, in the burning
of the new Ric hmond House. A number
Of human lives were lost and great
many people were injured
A MAN who, from papers found in his
pocket, was undoubtedly Patrick H.
Dolan, clerk, fell in front of an engine
at the Ninth street New York; station OF
the Third Avenue Elevated road on the
18th, and was instantly killed.
THE Russian Press is raising large cash
contributions from public subscriptions
for the families of the insurgents recently
executed in Bulgaria.
The second trial of Michael Kaelin, al
Louisville, KY, for the murder of his
wife on August z, 1885, resulted on the
18th in his being sentenced to the peniten
tiary for life. Upon his first trial he was
sentenced to hang.
THE weekly report of the Commissioner
Of Pensions shows that during the week
ending March IL there were received al
his Office 6,355 applications for pensions
2,1H cases were disposed of during the
week, leaving total Of 296, 2S6 cases pend
ing. ....
The Political Correspondence says the
Turkish Government has warned the Bul.
garian Government of projected rebel
ious movement from Roumelia, under
Captain Nabokoff, with band Of armed
Montenegrins.
The bodies of two unknown tramps
were discovered in the hot air flue of the
Isabella furnace at Pittsburgh on the
18TH. The men had evidently crawled
into the fue or tunnel to escape from the
cold last night and had been suffocatet
by the coke gas while sleeping There
was nothing about them which would
furnish clew to their identity
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Cairo to secure
the release of Zobehr Pasha, transported
in 1886 for alleged treason, and since I
State prisoner at Gibraltar
A SAD death by suicide occurred il
Grant township, Adams County, foul
miles north of Lenox, Ia, on the 18th
George Douglass, a well-known farmer
forty-seven years of age, shot and killed